Editing Files In a Dir with a .htpaasswd

Anon

Hello,

In my user authentication system, each user receives a director..such as "bryan" "joe", etc. When the directory is made, it creates a.htaccess file like this:

AuthName "Members Area"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/sites/site19/web/bryan/.htpasswd
require valid-user

The problem is - I can not upload or add files to the directory, because I get "permission denied" in my ftp program. Could someone let me know how I could get around this?

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

bretticus

"ftp program"? is this a PHP problem or are you actually trying to access the url via http from your browser? Not sure I follow ya there but woudl be glad to help on a bit of clarification.

Anon

Hello,

The way my program works is the directory is created via FTP, and my program (windows based) uploads files into it periodically via FTP. However, when i try to upload files, it says "permission denied".

I am not sure if this in result of adding in the .htpasswd and .htaccess files, or if it is server related. It only gives me "permission denied" on directories which contain the 2 password authentication files.

Any ideas? I hope this clears things up..

bretticus

My guess is that where .htaccess is an apache (httpd) tool, that the problem does not lie with .htaccess. Rather, the ftp user that is used to upload files may not have the write permission in that directory. Is the hosting server *NIX or Windows?